Question

How does the author best create suspense in this excerpt the pit and the pendulum?

Answer 1

The author repeats the word down to show the slow descent of the pendulum.

Step-by-step explanation:

Down—steadily down it crept.

Down—certainly, relentlessly down!

Down—still unceasingly—still inevitably down!

2. How does the author create suspense in this excerpt?

Answer 2

the author may create suspense in the story by resorting to different literary devices. for example, he does not give a lot of details about the situation. the reader does not know why he is about to die or what he sees in that place. The narrator does not even hear his sentence because he was recalling a tale. THe use of an unreliable narrator helps to create suspense because the reader is never sure of what is really going on. Facts are not complete or they are kind of vague so it is the reader the responsible for putting the pieces together.